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Emergency services spokesman says candle that apparently caused blaze was used after electricity was cut

ed note–we can JUST IMAGINE the screeching that would take place if this were a case of Jewish children dying in such a horrible way that could be blamed on someone else. OR FOR THAT MATTER, if these were Syrian children and it could be blamed on Assad.

HOWEVER, will we see Obama, Merckel, Sarkozy, or the Pope using this terrible occasion as a platform for condeming Israel’s blockade of goods from gaza? Not just a ‘no’ but a ‘HELL NO! to that one.

Ynet

Three Palestinian children were found dead Sunday in a fire in their room caused by a candle being used due to lack of electricity in Gaza, an emergency services official said.

“A fire broke out in the children’s room,” said Adham Abu Selmiya, emergency services spokesman for the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

“Apparently the fire was caused by a candle which was being used after the electricity was cut,” he said, adding that the tragedy occurred in the town of Deir Balah, in the center of the coastal strip.

A fourth child, aged six months, was badly burned and taken to hospital, added Selmiya.

The children, aged two, five and six, were members of the Bashir family, a relative said.

The Gaza Strip’s sole power station shuddered to a halt a week ago, running out of fuel just 48 hours after some 450,000 liters were delivered to the coastal strip from Israel.

The Red Cross on Thursday said it would ship emergency supplies of fuel to help alleviate the worsening energy crisis in Gaza, which is hitting medical services hard.